Confidence Starts with Foundations 🖤💛
This week, WHe visited classrooms at @@WH_Cornwellave and saw the power of foundational skills in action. Students explored Fundations in literacy, learning spelling patterns like ck and how to break words into base words and suffixes. In math, they tackled real-world problem-solving with fish, sharks, cans, and pennies.
When students stack learning and experience success, they build a positive self-concept and a sense of competence, which leads to more motivation, more effort, and continued growth. Thank you to our Cornwell staff for making this happen every day.
#WHeRiseTogether
This week, WHe visited classrooms at @@WH_Cornwellave and saw the power of foundational skills in action. Students explored Fundations in literacy, learning spelling patterns like ck and how to break words into base words and suffixes. In math, they tackled real-world problem-solving with fish, sharks, cans, and pennies.
When students stack learning and experience success, they build a positive self-concept and a sense of competence, which leads to more motivation, more effort, and continued growth. Thank you to our Cornwell staff for making this happen every day.
#WHeRiseTogether
🔍 READ BETWEEN THE LINES 🔍
There’s Always More to the Story.
West Hempstead, a mystery is afoot... 🐏 Who stole the Ram?
Join us for Literacy Night 2026 and follow the clues, solve the case, and discover the power of literacy together.
📅 Thursday, October 22, 2026
🕕 6:30 PM
📍 West Hempstead Secondary School
Explore. Solve. Discover. Create. Belong. 📚
Same school. New story. Bring your family, bring your curiosity, and bring your detective skills!
#RamFam #WHLiteracyNight #ReadBetweenTheLines #WestHempsteadUFSD
There’s Always More to the Story.
West Hempstead, a mystery is afoot... 🐏 Who stole the Ram?
Join us for Literacy Night 2026 and follow the clues, solve the case, and discover the power of literacy together.
📅 Thursday, October 22, 2026
🕕 6:30 PM
📍 West Hempstead Secondary School
Explore. Solve. Discover. Create. Belong. 📚
Same school. New story. Bring your family, bring your curiosity, and bring your detective skills!
#RamFam #WHLiteracyNight #ReadBetweenTheLines #WestHempsteadUFSD
Putting Their Best Foot Forward at the Secondary School
What does effort look like? This week, WHe saw it everywhere.
Whether they’re designing a new phone holder, dreaming up a new school, making the case for kindness over bullying, or working through a challenging math problem, our students at @wh_secondary are putting their best foot forward.
During recent visits, WHe saw students in 3D design software building and refining a phone holder, teammates measuring, sketching, and sharing roles as they designed a school room from scratch, and Algebra students settling in with their calculators and problem sets. In the library, WHe also saw a display of student-created anti-bullying posters, full of heart. They reminded us that “bullying is a choice, kindness is a better one,” that we should “unite for what’s right,” and that you can’t build happiness on someone else’s pain.
What stood out was the effort. Students were designing, collaborating, problem-solving, and thinking about the kind of community they want to be a part of. That’s the work of learning, and it’s happening every day at the Secondary School.
🖤💛 Ask your child what they’re working on today, and tell them you’re proud of the effort.
Thank you to our teachers, staff, and families for supporting our students. WHe are RamProud of what they are doing.
#WHeRiseTogether
What does effort look like? This week, WHe saw it everywhere.
Whether they’re designing a new phone holder, dreaming up a new school, making the case for kindness over bullying, or working through a challenging math problem, our students at @wh_secondary are putting their best foot forward.
During recent visits, WHe saw students in 3D design software building and refining a phone holder, teammates measuring, sketching, and sharing roles as they designed a school room from scratch, and Algebra students settling in with their calculators and problem sets. In the library, WHe also saw a display of student-created anti-bullying posters, full of heart. They reminded us that “bullying is a choice, kindness is a better one,” that we should “unite for what’s right,” and that you can’t build happiness on someone else’s pain.
What stood out was the effort. Students were designing, collaborating, problem-solving, and thinking about the kind of community they want to be a part of. That’s the work of learning, and it’s happening every day at the Secondary School.
🖤💛 Ask your child what they’re working on today, and tell them you’re proud of the effort.
Thank you to our teachers, staff, and families for supporting our students. WHe are RamProud of what they are doing.
#WHeRiseTogether
40+ Stories, Endless Possibilities
@wh_secondary welcomed more than 40 professionals for Career Day, giving students the chance to hear directly from people who have walked the paths they are dreaming about. Hosted in partnership with Career Day Inc.™, the program helps every student, at every academic level, set goals, connect their education to their aspirations, and feel more confident about what comes next. 🖤💛
Thank you to Beth, Jonathan, and Richard of Career Day Inc.™ for another fabulous program, and to every speaker who shared their time and their journey.
Ask your child tonight what inspired them most. Their answer is a great way to start a conversation about the future.
Go Rams! #WHeRiseTogether
@wh_secondary welcomed more than 40 professionals for Career Day, giving students the chance to hear directly from people who have walked the paths they are dreaming about. Hosted in partnership with Career Day Inc.™, the program helps every student, at every academic level, set goals, connect their education to their aspirations, and feel more confident about what comes next. 🖤💛
Thank you to Beth, Jonathan, and Richard of Career Day Inc.™ for another fabulous program, and to every speaker who shared their time and their journey.
Ask your child tonight what inspired them most. Their answer is a great way to start a conversation about the future.
Go Rams! #WHeRiseTogether
🔍 READ BETWEEN THE LINES 🔍
There’s Always More to the Story.
West Hempstead, a mystery is afoot... 🐏 Who stole the Ram?
Join us for Literacy Night 2026 and follow the clues, solve the case, and discover the power of literacy together.
📅 Thursday, October 22, 2026
🕕 6:30 PM
📍 West Hempstead Secondary School
Explore. Solve. Discover. Create. Belong. 📚
Same school. New story. Bring your family, bring your curiosity, and bring your detective skills!
#RamFam #WHLiteracyNight #ReadBetweenTheLines #WestHempsteadUFSD
There’s Always More to the Story.
West Hempstead, a mystery is afoot... 🐏 Who stole the Ram?
Join us for Literacy Night 2026 and follow the clues, solve the case, and discover the power of literacy together.
📅 Thursday, October 22, 2026
🕕 6:30 PM
📍 West Hempstead Secondary School
Explore. Solve. Discover. Create. Belong. 📚
Same school. New story. Bring your family, bring your curiosity, and bring your detective skills!
#RamFam #WHLiteracyNight #ReadBetweenTheLines #WestHempsteadUFSD
When the Lights Went Out, the Learning Lit Up the Building
PSEG may have accidentally turned off the lights on @WHGWRams this morning, but the mental sweat our students produced for that hour lit up the building for all to see. 💡
Instead of pausing, our students and staff leaned into the Habits of Mind: persisting, thinking flexibly, and collaborating when things didn’t go as planned. In classrooms across GW, students talked through problems, read, wrote, and worked together in natural light, and learning and growth still happened. 🖤💛
Moments like this show who WHe are as a community. Our teachers adapt, our students rise, and learning doesn’t depend on a light switch.
WHe are #RamProud of our students and staff.
Take a moment today: Ask your Ram what they worked on this morning, and tell them how proud WHe are.
#WHeRiseTogether
PSEG may have accidentally turned off the lights on @WHGWRams this morning, but the mental sweat our students produced for that hour lit up the building for all to see. 💡
Instead of pausing, our students and staff leaned into the Habits of Mind: persisting, thinking flexibly, and collaborating when things didn’t go as planned. In classrooms across GW, students talked through problems, read, wrote, and worked together in natural light, and learning and growth still happened. 🖤💛
Moments like this show who WHe are as a community. Our teachers adapt, our students rise, and learning doesn’t depend on a light switch.
WHe are #RamProud of our students and staff.
Take a moment today: Ask your Ram what they worked on this morning, and tell them how proud WHe are.
#WHeRiseTogether
Counting Coins, Building Dreams, and Making Music Across WHUFSD
Walk through our buildings and you’ll see learning come to life in every direction. 🖤💛
At @WH_Cornwell, students built their math skills with a money lesson, then used their creativity at indoor recess, snapping Legos together into new designs. Math, imagination, and teamwork were all on display.
At @WHGWRams, students created number plots and practiced their instruments to make those sweet sounds. Every note and every plot point shows the care and effort our students put into their craft.
These moments are what WHe celebrate. Follow along on social media to see more of the great things happening in our schools, and share your own favorites with us!
#WHeRiseTogether
Walk through our buildings and you’ll see learning come to life in every direction. 🖤💛
At @WH_Cornwell, students built their math skills with a money lesson, then used their creativity at indoor recess, snapping Legos together into new designs. Math, imagination, and teamwork were all on display.
At @WHGWRams, students created number plots and practiced their instruments to make those sweet sounds. Every note and every plot point shows the care and effort our students put into their craft.
These moments are what WHe celebrate. Follow along on social media to see more of the great things happening in our schools, and share your own favorites with us!
#WHeRiseTogether
“I joined West Hempstead because there is a real understanding about what our children need. I have a lot of energy in me, and I want to really show them that it’s not just about making sure they have everything they need to run athletics after school, but I want to be in the trenches with them.”
🔍 READ BETWEEN THE LINES 🔍
There’s Always More to the Story.
West Hempstead, a mystery is afoot... 🐏 Who stole the Ram?
Join us for Literacy Night 2026 and follow the clues, solve the case, and discover the power of literacy together.
📅 Thursday, October 22, 2026
🕕 6:30 PM
📍 West Hempstead Secondary School
Explore. Solve. Discover. Create. Belong. 📚
Same school. New story. Bring your family, bring your curiosity, and bring your detective skills!
#RamFam #WHLiteracyNight #ReadBetweenTheLines #WestHempsteadUFSD
There’s Always More to the Story.
West Hempstead, a mystery is afoot... 🐏 Who stole the Ram?
Join us for Literacy Night 2026 and follow the clues, solve the case, and discover the power of literacy together.
📅 Thursday, October 22, 2026
🕕 6:30 PM
📍 West Hempstead Secondary School
Explore. Solve. Discover. Create. Belong. 📚
Same school. New story. Bring your family, bring your curiosity, and bring your detective skills!
#RamFam #WHLiteracyNight #ReadBetweenTheLines #WestHempsteadUFSD
During a recent visit to Cornwell Avenue School, WHe saw students at every level building the habits of strong readers, writers, and problem solvers. Across classrooms, the thinking was visible and the learning was purposeful.
In Mr. Pappas's third grade classroom, students dug into a story and its answer choices. Mr. Pappas read the next question aloud and asked students to "make it dirty" by underlining the key words. He then broke the problem down and had students work through each of the four answer choices to find the correct one. Next, he asked which choice they thought didn't fit, a great way to teach students to reason through a question rather than guess.
In Ms. Cousins's reading group, two students practiced sounding out letters and letter combinations (ab, an, at), then added a letter to build three-letter words like pat and sat. Ms. Cousins used a mirror so students could see how their mouths form each sound, and she asked them to use new words in sentences to connect sounds to meaning. She then moved on to a trickier word, said, where two letters make a different sound. It was explicit, supportive, and responsive instruction.
In Ms. Caines's first grade classroom, the class chorally read a math story problem together: Mrs. E. had 9 marbles and gave 4 to Sam. How many does she have left? Students then solved it, showed their work and answer, and had Ms. Caines check it before returning to their seats. Reading, reasoning, and showing your thinking all came together in one routine.
Thank you to our Cornwell Avenue teachers for meeting students where they are and moving them forward every day.
In Mr. Pappas's third grade classroom, students dug into a story and its answer choices. Mr. Pappas read the next question aloud and asked students to "make it dirty" by underlining the key words. He then broke the problem down and had students work through each of the four answer choices to find the correct one. Next, he asked which choice they thought didn't fit, a great way to teach students to reason through a question rather than guess.
In Ms. Cousins's reading group, two students practiced sounding out letters and letter combinations (ab, an, at), then added a letter to build three-letter words like pat and sat. Ms. Cousins used a mirror so students could see how their mouths form each sound, and she asked them to use new words in sentences to connect sounds to meaning. She then moved on to a trickier word, said, where two letters make a different sound. It was explicit, supportive, and responsive instruction.
In Ms. Caines's first grade classroom, the class chorally read a math story problem together: Mrs. E. had 9 marbles and gave 4 to Sam. How many does she have left? Students then solved it, showed their work and answer, and had Ms. Caines check it before returning to their seats. Reading, reasoning, and showing your thinking all came together in one routine.
Thank you to our Cornwell Avenue teachers for meeting students where they are and moving them forward every day.
WHUFSD Families, Adelphi University will be hosting Saturday Enrichment Program. See attached
Early Literacy in Action at @WHChestnut 🖤💛
Imaginary rubber bands, ST Math stations, and handwriting practice: our youngest Rams are learning, growing, and loving school! During a recent visit, WHe saw teachers, aides, and specialists bring early literacy to life through small groups, centers, and whole-class phonics. Every adult and every student was actively engaged.
#WHeRiseTogether
Imaginary rubber bands, ST Math stations, and handwriting practice: our youngest Rams are learning, growing, and loving school! During a recent visit, WHe saw teachers, aides, and specialists bring early literacy to life through small groups, centers, and whole-class phonics. Every adult and every student was actively engaged.
#WHeRiseTogether
We're hiring Teacher Assistants at West Hempstead UFSD! 🐏
West Hempstead Union Free School District has immediate openings for Teacher Assistants (probationary positions, K–12).
If you love working with students and want to be part of a close-knit PreK–12 community where every adult plays a role in helping kids grow, we'd love to hear from you.
Details:
📍 West Hempstead UFSD, Long Island, NY
🎓 NYS certification required
📅 Apply by October 16, 2026
How to apply: Submit a letter of interest, updated resume, and your certification online at www.olasjobs.org
Know someone who would be a great fit? Tag them or share this post. Teacher assistants make a real difference in our classrooms every day, and we'd be glad to welcome new members to the RamFam.
#WHeRiseTogether
"For the past 10 years, I have been incredibly fortunate to call West Hempstead home professionally. I am deeply honored to now serve in an administrative role and continue giving back to a community that is truly special to me. West Hempstead is more than a school district—it is a community built on connection, care, and a shared commitment to our students."
This week, WHe visited classrooms and meetings across @wh_secondary and left energized by the work happening every day. Virtual Enterprise students presented their company roles, Broadcasting students planned interviews for the newest edition, and students rotated through stations reflecting on their relationship with technology. Our Special Class students also prepared The Haven, our school store, putting life skills into practice.
Planning. Teamwork. Responsibility. That is what learning looks like here.
#WHeRiseTogether
Planning. Teamwork. Responsibility. That is what learning looks like here.
#WHeRiseTogether
Literacy in Action: Our Students Lead the Way 🖤💛
This week, WHe stepped into classrooms to see literacy at work, and WHe saw students who take ownership of their learning. From choosing how they read, to partner conversations about character traits, to routines that are already second nature, our readers are thinking deeply and speaking with confidence.
Thank you to our teachers for making this possible. Ask your child about their reading tonight. WHe think you'll love what you hear.
#WHeRiseTogether
This week, WHe stepped into classrooms to see literacy at work, and WHe saw students who take ownership of their learning. From choosing how they read, to partner conversations about character traits, to routines that are already second nature, our readers are thinking deeply and speaking with confidence.
Thank you to our teachers for making this possible. Ask your child about their reading tonight. WHe think you'll love what you hear.
#WHeRiseTogether
To the incredible teachers of West Hempstead — WHe couldn't let the day end without thanking you for shaping futures, inspiring minds, and making our community stronger every single day. ❤️📚
Your dedication, compassion, and commitment make a lasting difference in the lives of our students and our entire community.
Thank you for all that you do! 🍎
Your dedication, compassion, and commitment make a lasting difference in the lives of our students and our entire community.
Thank you for all that you do! 🍎
We're hiring: School Psychologist (Leave Replacement) at West Hempstead Secondary School 🐏
West Hempstead UFSD has an immediate opening for a School Psychologist leave replacement at our Secondary School (grades 7–12).
If you're a certified school psychologist who wants to support students at a pivotal stage, working with a collaborative team in a close-knit Long Island community, we'd love to hear from you.
Details:
📍 West Hempstead Secondary School
📜 NYS certification required
📅 Apply by October 19, 2026
To apply: Please send a letter of interest, updated resume, and copy of your certification to Dina Reilly, Assistant Superintendent, West Hempstead UFSD, 252 Chestnut Street, West Hempstead, NY 11552.
Know someone who'd be a great fit? Please share this post or tag them below. Our students are lucky to have strong support around them, and we'd love to add one more great colleague.
#SchoolPsychology #NowHiring #EducationJobs #LongIslandJobs #WestHempstead #RamFam #K12Education
West Hempstead UFSD has an immediate opening for a School Psychologist leave replacement at our Secondary School (grades 7–12).
If you're a certified school psychologist who wants to support students at a pivotal stage, working with a collaborative team in a close-knit Long Island community, we'd love to hear from you.
Details:
📍 West Hempstead Secondary School
📜 NYS certification required
📅 Apply by October 19, 2026
To apply: Please send a letter of interest, updated resume, and copy of your certification to Dina Reilly, Assistant Superintendent, West Hempstead UFSD, 252 Chestnut Street, West Hempstead, NY 11552.
Know someone who'd be a great fit? Please share this post or tag them below. Our students are lucky to have strong support around them, and we'd love to add one more great colleague.
#SchoolPsychology #NowHiring #EducationJobs #LongIslandJobs #WestHempstead #RamFam #K12Education
🌱 Planting Seeds of Change 🌱
Today, about 20 of our 10th graders from West Hempstead Secondary School walked over to Cornwell Avenue to partner with our second graders on a special lesson about tolerance, kindness, and the power of small actions.
Our high school students introduced their younger neighbors to Mahatma Gandhi and his legacy of peaceful change. Then, together, they planted seeds as a symbol of how our own choices can help positive change grow.
This spring, those seedlings will find a permanent home in the Garden Circle at Cornwell Avenue, a lasting reminder that kindness takes root and grows over time.
Proud of our students for leading, learning, and growing together. This is what #RamFam is all about. 💚
#WHUFSD #PlantingSeedsOfChange #DayOfNonviolence #StudentLeadership #KindnessMatters
Learning in Action at West Hempstead Secondary School
From constitutional questions to the science of density, WHe saw curiosity in action this week at @wh_secondary.
WHe visited classrooms where students debated the powers of the President and the impact of the media in Mr. Hanna's Economics/Government class, explored what floats and why in Ms. Kayaian's Earth Science class, practiced metric conversions in Mr. Trupia's 7th grade Science class, and studied the history and technology of the Civil War in Mr. Paul's 8th grade Social Studies class.
Thank you to our teachers for creating classrooms where students think critically, ask questions, and connect learning to the world around them. Read the full weekly update for more highlights, and check back soon to see where WHe visit next. 🖤💛
#WHeRiseTogether
From constitutional questions to the science of density, WHe saw curiosity in action this week at @wh_secondary.
WHe visited classrooms where students debated the powers of the President and the impact of the media in Mr. Hanna's Economics/Government class, explored what floats and why in Ms. Kayaian's Earth Science class, practiced metric conversions in Mr. Trupia's 7th grade Science class, and studied the history and technology of the Civil War in Mr. Paul's 8th grade Social Studies class.
Thank you to our teachers for creating classrooms where students think critically, ask questions, and connect learning to the world around them. Read the full weekly update for more highlights, and check back soon to see where WHe visit next. 🖤💛
#WHeRiseTogether
